This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 2007
Page
4
Clifton E. Clements and David Bloom are listed as editors with Jane Howard Lee noted as retired, indicating the newspaper's editorial leadership roster.
Fifty eight years ago today this newspaper adopted The Baytown Sun name to reflect its focus on the Baytown community. It has since chronicled births, achievements and losses of city personalities, institutions and traditions, striving to be the primary source for local news.
The Rotary Club of Baytown hosts an immunization outreach Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Wal-Mart on Garth Road with sponsors McDonald’s Goose Creek School District San Jacinto Methodist Hospital and Lee College. Sliding scale fees apply and no one is denied service. Parents should bring shot records for screening to determine needed vaccines.
The Aug. 13 1961 start of the Berlin Wall began a barrier that divided East and West Berlin for decades, with Soviet, American, British, and French forces involved in the 1961 reinforcement and later events. Baytown resident Ray Wilson, a retired Exxon supervisor, is cited with contact details.
The document lists federal leaders and Texas lawmakers with phone and fax numbers. It includes President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, and Congress members Ted Poe Ron Paul and Gene Green, with district contact lines.
The Baytown Sun lists contact details for Clifton Clements publisher Sandy Denson business manager Emmett McKinley advertising director Joshua Hart circulation manager and newsroom staff including David Bloom managing editor. It notes letters to the editor up to 300 words and guest columns up to 500 words with a photo required for column submissions.
The Baytown Sun invites signed letters and guest columns addressed to the paper with full contact information. Submissions may be edited or refused. Readers should receive the paper by 6 a.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. Sundays. call 281 425 8048 by 10 a.m. for redelivery if late.
A Baytown Sun reader and spouse urge city approval of a red light camera pilot project. They cite studies from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Houston Chronicle figures on crashes, deaths, and injuries to argue cameras save lives and should be carefully regulated. They ask residents to contact council members to support installing cameras at high risk intersections.
Critics argue a proposed immigration measure would grant amnesty with no background checks, include terrorists and felons, and allow social security benefits and work rights for illegal entrants. They warn many security gaps could let hundreds of thousands slip through while undermining law enforcement.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.